the average character and the plane of living of the
immigrants been raised or lowered by their coming here? Same as to
wages? As to intelligence?

7. * How are our public schools affected? Is there any menace to
our school system? Can we provide compulsory education for all the
children?

III. _Other Effects._

8. Do these new Americans learn to use the ballot rightly? Can they
learn?

9. Does their coming make genuine Christianity more or less
prominent in the national life? What effect does it have on Sunday
observance? Does it lessen or increase lawbreaking?

IV. _National Bulwarks._

10. What are the safeguards pointed out by Professor Boyesen? By
ex-President Seelye?

11. How can Socialism be met?

12. * Will anything but Christianity effectively guard our
institutions?

13. How far will material improvements help to uplift and
assimilate the newcomers?

14. Do the children learn patriotism from their new country? Do
they keep it when grown up?

15. * Is there good reason for being optimistic? Upon what
condition may we be hopeful?

REFERENCES FOR ADVANCED STUDY.--CHAPTER VII

I. Study further some of the specific effects of the immigrants'
presence.

Warne: The Slav Invasion, V, VI.
Wood: Americans in Process, VII, VIII.
Riis: How the Other Half Lives, XVIII, XXI.

II. What can you learn about the present status of the parochial school
movement, especially in your own vicinity?

Refer to local periodicals and daily papers.

III. Is assimilation of foreigners taking place everywhere, or only in
certain places?

McLanahan: Our People of Foreign Speech, I.
Hall: Immigration, 172, 182.
Wood: Americans in Process, XII.
Strong: The Twentieth Century City, IV.

IV. Are our school facilities, actual or prospective, likely to prove
sufficient for the demands made upon them?

Riis: How the Other Half Lives, XV, XVI.
Wood: Americans in Process, X.
Hunter: Poverty, V.

_The Christian Churches in America stand face to face with a
tremendous task. It is a challenge to their faith, their devotion,
their zeal. The accomplishment of it will mean not only the
ascendancy of Christianity in the homeland, but also the gaining of
a position of vantage for world-wide evangelization._--E.